Do you favor one child more than the other?

yes, i favor my son over my daughter as he cooks, cleans and does the household chores without being asked..but my daughter is like her mother and does not even want to do her own laundry ..she never cooks and always is in the fridge eating all the goodies and leaving us with noting...my daughter is 13 months older then my son and she is always thinking she is going to be her own boss while my son listens to me without a word of complaint...so i have to prefer one over the other...i took her and her mother to counseling with my son and the counselor told me that this was not the norm but he agreed with me...life is not always what it appears to be...goodness shall be rewarded.and bad behavior will not be condoned.

I have 3 children and I wouldn't like to say I favor one more than the other. The oldest does get more attention because he is handicapped and my younger two know that it's not his fault although it has been hard on them sometimes because of the situation. I still try to keep them all equally in what matters most. Love.

In theory, parents should not discriminate between their children. But in practice, it is very difficult. Inspite of your best efforts you do something sometime which will be seen by one child as a discrimination to him and favour to other. But parents should be honest and sincere in their approach, no favour to one child over other(s).

I am an only child, and always wanted a younger brother or sister, because at times my childhood was lonely. I only have one child. We are considering having another, but the question of favoring one over another is one of the hurdles we are trying to get over in deciding to have another. Having one is hard work, he is only 2, and wants attention all the time. I can only take so much of Thomas the Train. So, sometimes we think it would be good to have another, so the two of them would have each other. I cannot imagine favoring any child over the one I have right now, but am concerned that I would favor my son over the next.

I don't favor anyone of my children. I treated them equally. At home, i've a schedule of household chores for them. It's a rotation chores wherein each of them will do. I have given them full responsibilties to the assigned tasks. It is because i wanted them to be fully developed and they will know how to resolve little problems that may crop up in doing the tasks. I requested them to consider me as a friend, sister, and a mother who is ready to help, encourage and support them in everything that they wanted to do as long that it will make them happy.

As a mother myself, I do not intend to play favorites, as I know that I will affect them one way or the other. I always try to be fair. And I think that mothers or parents who play favorites just do not think hard enough on how to nurture their children. There will be one from the rest that will be the easiest to rear, the most obedient, the sweetest. And the others will be problematics, emotionally draining and demanding. But being a parent is a job that requires nurturing whoever needs the love and attention most, not to yell or demand more. It's a very tough balancing act, that never stops until the sun sets on us.

I do ask my oldest to do a lot but that is because he is very responsible. But I give all my children equal attention.

If you asked my kids, they would say that I favor one child more than the other. The funny thing is they would all say that I favor someone other than them and I have 4 kids. I don't think that I favor any. They are all unique and have different aspects to offer. I spend most of my time with my daughter because she is only 7 and my boys are all teens and they are more into hanging out with their friends. As for asking them to help around the house, they all get asked to do different jobs.

To hear my daughters tell it, they would say I use favortism. But in reality they are both unique and individual personality, that I treat each situation different with both of them. I guess it is like the ole saying what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander! What's right for one, doesn't mean it is right for the other and visa versa!

my daughter alice..is 36 and has three children and the youngest girl..susan is nine years old and the older boys nickolas and frank is teenagers..but my daughter is a very permissive mother and lets these kids get away with too much monkey business but my son..got married and divorced..but never had any children..he went with his future wife for over years but the marriage lasted less then a year.. and alice is on her third relationship and not all the kids have the same father... Life is hard..even today my daughter is a stranger too me as she is just like her real mother..but my son is aloof to me because I refused to pay for his divorce..alice too wanted to borrow money and when I remarried..i did not have a lot of money....just pay the bill and their support..ahh the good old days..not!

I am the youngest of three daughters and I feel that we each had our own personalities therefore we were each treated differently. The oldest was the firstborn - no competition there, I was the 'baby' - again no competition there, and my middle sister just lived for drama so she got attention that way. Now I have three children and I feel the same way. They each have their own personality so they each get treated differently. My oldest is from my first marriage and he helps me out often with the two little ones. I feel like I am more forgiving with him. the middle is my husband's first born so I feel like she's got a good spot there and she knows how to read me so we get along in that sense. The youngest, I had a very difficult preg. and therefore she has a lot of my affection. I absolutely love all of my children to no end, but, because they have different personalities, they get treated differently.

I'm having a hard time with it right now. I have a 2 1/2 year old and an 8 week-old. My first was colicy as a newborn, and is a terror now at 2. My newborn, on the other hand, is the textbook "good baby". I find myself wanting to be around my newborn more just because it's easier. It is getting better as the weeks go by, though.